(2) We fast-track market-entry into Japan for select companies by teaming up with experienced Japanese marketing, sales, and logistics experts.

(3) We promote Japan as a richly enticing tourist destination.

If you would care to discuss how partnering with Open Mind can enhance your business, please CONTACT US.

Your New Partner IN Japan

Bruce Connects People

Bruce R. Haendel

Co-Founder & Director

Bruce is your new right-hand man, with more than 30 years of Japan-based international experience. An American, he is fluent in spoken Japanese. Bruce has worked on hundreds of projects adding mission-critical strategy, technology, and communications.

In mobile computing's early days, Bruce's company created a ground-breaking mobile print solution with BlackBerry and Fujitsu, Ltd. He continues to provide hi-tech solutions for projects throughout the world.

Bruce earned a B.A. in Political Science at the University of Washington in 1983. After moving to Japan in 1985, he lectured at Kyushu Institute of Technology for 15 years and at Nakamura Gakuen University's School of Business, Marketing, and Distribution, for 7 years.

Bruce works with a diverse human network and has traveled to more than 50 countries to increase his cultural knowledge and sensitivity.

Open Mind Media

A Full-Service Team

Web-Design

Your Online Presence

We create mobile-friendly informational and

e-Commerce websites.

Copywriting

Words Matter

We make sure your text is appropriate and effective for your target audience.

Audio Production

Hit the High Notes

Sound is part of your message. From voiceovers to music and noise, we've got you covered.

Video Production

Transcending Borders

Pictures might be worth 1000 words, but a finely-produced video is priceless.

What OPEN MIND PRoduceS

We Optimize Your Media & Communications; You Focus On Your Business

Japan Tourism Videos

Speaking to a Global Audience

Produced by our partner in Kyushu, this video shows the excitement and mystery of Japan's culture of festivals.

Junno Design's top-selling earth-friendly wood care product line is made in Fukuoka. To clearly convey their brand image, we edited their in-house footage and added just the right amount of text.

Cultural Promotion

Anticipating TOKYO 2020

Open Mind manages English-language social media and web-text for the Imagine One World Kimono Project, now producing 206 handmade kimonos, one for each nation competing in Tokyo in 2020. With 100 already completed, we're well on our way!

Toyota dealers in Kyushu and Okinawa get some of their *star*power from our network of talented international actors/singers. This commercial makes you want to burst into song and go driving with your friends, doesn't it?!

Voiceovers

An International Brand in Japan

A & W was established in California in 1919. We produced voiceovers for A&W in Japanese and English. By far Okinawa's most popular fast food outlet, their fancy cheeseburgers, hot dogs & all-you-can-drink root beer never sounded so exciting!

Interviews

New Publisher in Japan

North Pacific Press, a new publisher, will be releasing new titles on a regular basis. What makes them special is publisher/writer TJ Riggins, an American who has lived in Sapporo since 1971. His unique, positive take on Hokkaido people, societal changes going on in the Asia-Pacific Region, and the future make his books interesting and fun to read.

Photography

Unique Product Promotion

Announcing a line of hand-made tables produced with wood reclaimed from old Indonesian fishing boats, these are not your ordinary product photos. And that's not your ordinary table. Just look at those legs.

Some OF Our ClientS

From top brands to local heroes

TOTO Ltd.

Marketing, Training

Created marketing copy in seven languages, assisted new product promotion in Japan and the USA, coached CEO and and trained International Division in communication skills.

Open Mind Blog

The Imagine One World Kimono Project aims to create 206 kimonos representing each of the countries expected to take part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, seizing an opportunity to spread the wonders of Japan’s master craftsmanship across the country and around the globe. At the...

It was a clear spring day in Amsterdam when I first met Jiro. A lazy atmosphere filled the air; people were drinking beer on the grass. Jiro had that reserved air I often observe in Japanese people. I asked him where he had come from and he gave his head a shake nonchalantly saying, “Ah, I cycled...

Mr. Muneo Wakabayashi is CEO of Wakabayashi Business Support and holds the distinction of being the first TV Tokyo New York Bureau Chief and Correspondent. He was the first news anchor on TV Tokyo's nightly business news program, "World Business Satellite." Mr. Wakabayashi has also been a...